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Primarily a road bike but I don't want a "racer" I want to attach a load of shit to it and go bike camping too, not quite raw off-road but the odd bit of forest.

I'd also quite like some sort of USB phone connectivity for telemetry gubbins, or at least charge ports. I have no idea if there would be a cap, but I would probably want to go up to £2k with maybe £500 of my own money on top. But would want a frame and bags included in that too.
 
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Also, I don't want it to be shit looking, I have at least some dignity left. I will even wear a hat.
 
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Raven said:
Primarily a road bike but I don't want a "racer" I want to attach a load of shit to it and go bike camping too, not quite raw off-road but the odd bit of forest.

I'd also quite like some sort of USB phone connectivity for telemetry gubbins, or at least charge ports. I have no idea if there would be a cap, but I would probably want to go up to £2k with maybe £500 of my own money on top. But would want a frame and bags included in that too.
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Not road. Gravel bike. - all the benefits of roady thing, specifically made up for putting your camping shit on it and turning left onto a fire road. Right up your alley m8.

Sonder Camino from Alpkit - they will also fully kit you out with bikepacking bags. UK based company (Nottingham) - they've branched out. You do outdoors so you'll have heard of them.

alpkit.com

Sonder Camino Gravel Bike in Titanium & Aluminium with Drop Bars

Titanium and aluminium drop bar gravel bikes. It's quick, light and definitely not afraid to leave the asphalt. We've taken a race cross bike and relaxed the riding position, extending the wheelbase for a fast, comfortable all-day ride.
alpkit.com alpkit.com

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YO1eAiJoZs


Or Cotic Cascade or Escapade?

COTIC Cascade : Rugged Drop Bar or Flat Bar Radness - steel adventure, gravel, bikepack

Cotic Cascade Steel Adventure Gravel Bikepacking Drop Bar or Flat Bar Mountain Bike, rigid or 100mm forks
www.cotic.co.uk

COTIC Escapade : Steel Disc Road / Gravel Bike 700c or Road Plus

Cotic Escapade Steel Disc Road 700c or 650b Road Plus Gravel Bike
www.cotic.co.uk

(I've had two Cotics and I love them both. They're a great company. I've got a titanium hardtail MTB based on their solaris with racey tyres - I can spank my mate on his gravel bike).

Personally, I don't like drop bars. I'd want something with flat handlebars. But you can mix n match. If you ring cotic there's a good chance you'll end up talking to Cy - it's his company. They're pretty happy to just talk bikes - tell 'em what you want and they'll build it for you - no bullshit. No hard sell.


Vids on the product pages for cotic :)
 
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Raven said:
Also, I don't want it to be shit looking, I have at least some dignity left. I will even wear a hat.
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The Cotics in particular are gorgeous steel things. Steel's their thing. Rides nice - and it's still light. They make 'em out of Reynolds 853. Cool bikes and boutique enough that you'll turn heads :)

Not dissing the Sonders tho.
 
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Has to be an ebike. A man wants an Ebike.
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You've struck out here then. :)

I've got two things for you to consider before you definitely choose ebike (other than expense - add at least a grand).

1) Multi-day bikepacking trips are out of the window with an ebike - they don't have the capacity and are a pig to pedal once you're out of juice.
2) Assist is limited to 15mph. After that it's all on you - and on a gravel bike you get to 15mph really, really easy. It's why the neds (Job) all try to derestrict theirs - but if you cause an accident on a derestricted ebike it's clinky time. So - you might find an ebike frustrating in that if you want to go faster (and around you I suspect it's largely flat?) then it'll be under your own steam on a heavier bike.

In the meantime, may as well watch the vids for bikepack porn commute fun ;)
 
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The EU is not the same as an electorate. That's a false equivalence. It has rules and members could get together to kick out a member who doesn't follow them. Nazis who fiddle their own elections and undermine efforts to curtail the protagonist of Europe's biggest war should be kicked out.
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www.politico.eu

‘Nazi’ talk: Orbán adviser trashes ‘mixed race’ speech in dramatic exit

The Hungarian prime minister is embroiled in a rare war of words with a close ally warning that Orbán’s ‘openly racist’ remarks must be stopped.
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Open dissent in the ranks of his own party. Good stuff.
 
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They still have Wimpys?
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Think they still have Quick instead.

There is a Wimpy 10 minutes from my house however.

Oh and a Taco Bell, but I'd rather have Old El Paso at home tbh.
 
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Taco Bell is about as Mexican as Subway is a sandwich.

Even their hottest food is bland. What a waste.
 
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Bloody Americans and their "sense" of humour
You make a clever joke on a US server....silence....tumbleweed
Someone mentions "peanut butter" and "dog's butt" in the same sentence and they wet themselves laughing
 
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Taco Bell is about as Mexican as Subway is a sandwich.

Even their hottest food is bland. What a waste.
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In fairness it isn't supposed to be Mexican - it's Tex-Mex, which is a slightly different thing.

I get reminded of the difference constantly when we go to a proper Mexican and I start grumbling about the rubbish soft tacos they sell.
 
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Wij said:
We can do both tbh.
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Fair. But it's hugely concerning, no?

Do you think our newly anti-immigration countries are taking a leaf out of that wanker Elon Musk's book and thinking we need to reverse our population decline through a long-term increased birth rate? Why would Blighty start leaning towards the "pro-life" agenda?
 
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Fair. But it's hugely concerning, no?

Do you think our newly anti-immigration countries are taking a leaf out of that wanker Elon Musk's book and thinking we need to reverse our population decline through a long-term increased birth rate? Why would Blighty start leaning towards the "pro-life" agenda?
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Playing to an increasingly radicalised Tory membership to win the crown?
 
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Toyed with the idea of installing Genshin Impact on my phone...until I found out it requires around 20 GB to run
(apparently you can save quite a bit if you delete the Asian voice language modules)
Still need a very high end spec phone to run it lag free
I think it still runs hot unless you got one of those fan-cooled mobiles
 
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